Message to Parents

As professionals working with college students everyday, we realize that sending your student to college is a time of tremendous transition for your entire family. All students go through an adjustment period and experience many challenging moments while living away from home. There are many resources here on campus available for your student to manage this transition successfully.

Here in Student Life / Housing our preference is to deal  with the student directly. This enables us to establish a relationship with your student and allows us to get to the core of the problem much more efficiently. We do welcome parent input and questions at any time. Our goal is to provide parents with the resources which they can pass on to their student to help them to help themselves.

It is important that students have support and encouragement from home while being allowed to mature through their own experiences. By all means be there for your student as a sounding board, but let him or her handle their own problems as much as possible. Your student's success is dependent upon his or her own ability to function independently.

The information on this webpage is provided to parents so that you can be an informed resource for your student.  The links on the left of every page are also worth exploring and will answer many of your questions.